For some reason, I think that there's some quote about Ted Williams wanting to be the best hitter ever as a child? Does anyone remember what this quote is? Or am I just crazy? --Revised 22:12, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

If there is such a thing as a science in sport, hitting a baseball is it. As with any science, there are fundamentals, certain tenets of hitting every good batter or batting coach could tell you. But it is not an exact science.

If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.

If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it.

In spite of all the terrible things that have been said about me by the knights of the keyboard up there... And they were terrible things, I'd like to forget them, but I can't. I want to say that my years in Boston have been the greatest thing in my life.

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

Making good contact with a round ball and round bat even if you know what's coming is hard to do. That seems to be the one major thing that all young players have difficulty with. Why? It's the hardest thing to do in sports. So that's the reason baseball is a hard game to play.

People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice.

Set your goal. Stay focused. And you'll succeed.

The best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat.

The inside half of the plate. That's where history's made.

The only thing dumber than a pitcher is two pitchers.

The two things I'm proudest of in my life, is that I became a Marine pilot and that I became a member of Baseball's Hall of Fame.

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.

Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.

Ya gotta be ready for the fastball.

You can't imagine the warm feeling I had, for the very fact that I had done what every ballplayer would want to do on his last time up, having wanted to do it so badly, and knowing how the fans really felt, how happy they were for me. Maybe I should have let them know I knew, but I couldn't. It just wouldn't have been me.